Hi Everyone,
Here are two questions for you to consider. You only need to respond to one by Sunday night. Then, you need to respond to two other posts by Tuesday's class.
1. If someone wanted to challenge gender roles in our society through public discourse, what might be ways to go about it?
2. In one of the readings, a Deaf woman said, "When our language was acknowledged, we gained our freedom." How does this differ from speakers of Spanglish or Black English Vernacular's efforts to have those languages recognized?
Thanks,
Tiffany
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If someone wanted to challenge gender roles through public discourse and really piss people off they would have to start with the women. Women have always been labled as inferior to doing anything a man can do. If they wanted to get at men they would do it comparring one ethcicity to the other in terms of inferiority among males. For example one might say that a black man is more athletic than any white man, but some of the worlds greatest athletes are white males so that would be a never ending war between the two parties of only those ethnicities. The sky is the limit on how many things can be compared between men and women and ethnicities, languages and beleifs. Thats why it is so important to recognize these different attributes from poeple as a specialty or variety not a wrong or right.
I agree women have always had a hard time in assuming a place in society and having to overcome the machismo of many cultures where women are not allowed to even say a word. definying gender roles through public discourse would definately cause a lot of heads to role because of the complexity that of women brains and no i'm not saying man are stupid, it has been proved scientificaly that women use both sides of their brain as oppose to men who use more one side more than the other. unfortunately there wil always be "descrimination" and comparisons.
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